The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-07-14
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Red Wing.
Thus far tho high license has redeemed the
members OF saloons about one half.
At New Ulm, the dwelling house OF Mrs.
s. Kneles was burned. Loss, 81 100.
8. Bergvin was commissioned as post
master at Lambert, MINI.
Mankato increases it's assessed valu-
alton one third for 1887
At Fergus Falls, the warehouses belong
ing to the Standard Oil company burned.
The Milwaukee 4 st. Paul will remov o
it's division headquarters from Bird Is
land to Montevideo.
Hon. Chas. e. Lehman. ofMontgomery,
received kick from q horse which badly
distigured him.
The confectionery store OF George
Thomas OF Mankato was entered and 500
in money and $14O in goods taken.
At Verndale, fire destroyed the farm
buildings OF j. ID. Wilson. The loss IS
heavy, but partly covered by Insurance.
At Albert Lea, HI. Beck was found guilty
OF selling liquor without q license and was
fined $25 and costs.
Register Coiville and Receiver Maginnis
were sworn in at Duluth, and took their
places as officers OF the Duluth land office.
At Owatonna, P. Bliss, stationer and
book dealer, was closed by attachment.
He i'll make an assignment.
Mr.. j. s. Anderson OF Austin has been
promoted to the position ofassistant mas
ter mechanic OF the Milwaukee & st. Paul.
Iowa & Dakota.
A two-year old girl Of Frank Farrell ol
Lyle town, Mower Co., wandered from
l,o,,,o ,cl xvoo found Irowpo1 in Cednr riv.
er.
James D. Claunch, who was injured in a
fall from water tank, died at Austin OF
his injuries, and was buried by the Odd
Fellows society.
George MacLish, a stranger aged twenty
eight years. was drowned in the Minneso ota
river at Belle Plaine while bathing. One
OF his companions says he was from
Belfast Ireland.
At Norman. the four-year.old daughter
OF A. c. Earshey fell from q balcony six.
teen feet and received serious if not fatal
injuries.
Miss Luella Banks OF Minneapolis wants
O. divorce from w. H. Banks, who, she
says, has got married twice since leaving
her.
In the case OF Catharine Follman vs.
the city OF Mankato for $40, 900 personal
injuries, theiu!r;yy returned a verdict OF $500
The state dental society will meet in
Minneapolis July Is, IA and Is. About
125 are expected. The meetings will be
held at the Nicollet and the clinics at the
Minnesota College hospital.
The suicide OF young man named Burt
Wood is reported from Amboy. He shot
himself in the head with q rifle twice, ter
ribly mutilating his face, and lived about
twelve hours in great pain. He was aged
twenty-five, and did the deed in q tit o.
temporary insanity.
E. Blake. aged seventy four, died at his
home in Mankato recently OF cancer in the
stomach. He leaves a family OF seven
sons and four daughters, several OF whom
reside in Mankato, where he has lived FOL
many years.
At Mankato, there has been paid into
the city treasurer Sic, 200 under the high
license law, thirty licenses having beer
taken out at $500 each. Three more will
probably be taken out making the mum
ber thirty three. This is but ten less than
at the old figure OF $50.
A dispatch from Lumsbord, Fillmore
county says: For the first time in the his
tory OF Southeastern Minnesota an almost
total failure of crops is likely to be expert
enced. The fields are alive with chinch bugs
and together with drouth they have made
an almost clean sweep of wheat and barley
and are now attacking corn and oats
Farmers are cutting their wheat and bar
ley for feed. The hay crop 10 failure
owning to the prolonged hot and dry wealth
er. Some farmers are surrounding thell
corn fields with tarred boards to prevent
the migration Of chinch bugs thithor.
A double wedding occurred at Melrose, II
which Lois Wheeler is united to CLARK
Evans of St. Paul and Miss Ella Wheeler
to Perry Lindburg OF Melrose.
Mike Mcnamara was shot through tht
heart by T. F. McDonough in a West Side
st. Paul saloon. The stricken man stag
gered up the street and dropped dead in th'
arms OF his sister. The murderer wal
arrested, and acknowledged the crime
but claims it was in self-defense. Th'
quarrel was all about d-o-r-g.
A telegram has been received by Adjt
Gen. Seeley from Adjt. Gen. Drum, U. s
A., containing the following: The sec
quest for the detail OF Capt. Groesbeck te
inspect the national guard camp OF Man
kato. The commanding general OF the de
partnent OF Dakota has been instructed
accordingly by telegraph.
The proposition to issue $4,000 bonds
in aid OF Duluth, Red Wing, and Southern
railroad was carried in Steele county by 6
majority of 42S with towns all heard from
except one, which may reduce it to 400.
On the Fourth, at the state prison IL
| Saltwater, every prisoner was turned
lose in the corridor and the fullest liberty
for conversation and visiting given. Here
tofore on holiday occasions prisoners were
| allowed to visit each other in locked cells
but the long bar was lifted and all CAM
| out into comparative freedom. While th'
men were asse mbled, as many as possible
| on the lower floor and others in the gal
leries, the warden addressed them in few
| off-hand remarks, saying that each wOul6
| be treated like q man when nothing offend
| ing against square shouldered manhood
| was manifested. He however, gave time
| warning that infractions OF tho rule
would be punished at once and severely
He commended the mass on their goot
| conduct, and when he finished great shouts
| OF approval went up from the imprisoned
men. Convicts Schoonmaker and Landi
arose to remark that the new style o
| discipline and treatment inaugurated b,
| Warden Stordock had made them NOR
obedient and patient prisoners and hat
added to their own selfrespect. A convic
| named jackson said he was bad mai
and "you all know it," but he appreciated
| the privileges, and when 60 out 1t viii
| be with a resolve to be better man.
| He added, "Others here have said SO.
suppose, but feel it, After time tn
| imprisoned men were given an sunusuall,
good dinner, and all who wished enjoyed ,
good cigar, proffered by the warden.
At the council meeting at Sleepy Eye tn
| $50, 900 of city fire bonds was sold to tn
Merchants bank OF that place at q premi
UNI OF two per cent. The bonds run tel
years and draw Z per cent interest.
The annual agricultural statement TO
Ramsey county prepared by Auditor Kali
shows the following total average planted
this season in the county: Wheat, !, As:
acres; oats 4,29S; corn, 1,173; barley
1913; rye. 68; buckwheat, 3; potatoes
Loaf; beans. IL; sugar cane, is; hay
3,437; other produce, $50; total cultivat
ed acreage, 1882.
The contract for building the extension
Of the sewerage system of st, Cloud wa
awarded to E. 7. Sykes & Co., OF Minneap
oils for $40, 900.
Daniel L. Tucker died at Hillsdale
OF cancer OF the stomach, aged seventy-si
years. He was o resident Of Nininge